Several newbie questions

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  byburgess · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 12:16 am

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  I’m using the columnist theme – just starting.

  If I add to a topic, like Travel, the entire contents disappears when I publish.

  How do I control the placement the blogs – I want a certain order, like A, B, C, D but the first title gets moved back one instead of adding titles left to right.

  I don’t want to customize, I want to use the theme as is.

  How do I get the photos behind the title?
  Blog url: http://priscillaburgess.wordpress.com/

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  byburgess · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 5:44 pm

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  I’m new – no response to my questions and I see a huge list of new questions with no answers.

  Who is out there to help?

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  timethief · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 5:47 pm

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  Hello there,
  Have you been using the learn wordpress.com tutorial linked to on the bottom of your Admin page? I’m asking because this is a peer support forum and it’s prime time for those who work to be working as apposed to helping out here. Also note that bumping your own thread in less than 24 hours after you posted it is not cool.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 5:53 pm

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  If I add to a topic, like Travel, the entire contents disappears when I publish.

  What do you mean by Topic? We can assign categories and/or tags to posts not pages.

  I haven’t had the time to work with the theme you are using in my test blog as yet. Here’s the theme description link > http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/the-columnist/ Here’s the link to the live demo site > http://thecolumnistdemo.wordpress.com/

  How do I control the placement the blogs – I want a certain order, like A, B, C, D but the first title gets moved back one instead of adding titles left to right.

  Blog posts are displayed in accord with the date they are published on. The date is embedded in the URL of the posts.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 5:56 pm

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  You set the number of post you wish to display on the front page of the blog here > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most __ posts
  “save changes”

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 6:11 pm

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  When you use one of the new, configurable themes with Featured Posts and Featured Images, etc, you really need to read up on the way it works in the Theme Showcase.